Category: CATL Blog Posts
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“Required” Reading: Guiding Students Through Your Course with Canvas Module Requirements
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When you organize and present your Canvas content in modules, you gain the ability to add requirements that require each student to view and/or interact with specified course items before they can progress and access items positioned further down in the course module order. When used thoughtfully, module requirements are an effective tool for encouraging…
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Turnitin: Beyond Plagiarism Review
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A feature highlight for Canvas this week is Turnitin. Although most instructors may be familiar with this tool as a plagiarism checker, it has additional impactful uses within the classroom. While checking for plagiarism is important to ensure academic integrity in student work, Turnitin can also function as a powerful feedback tool and as a…
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Cold Lunch & Hot Topic Follow-up: To Record or Not to Record
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To Record or Not to Record? That appears to be the question many of us are asking ourselves. COVID has accelerated the presence of remote learning technology in the classroom. Much of this technology allows for videoconferencing and video recording. For many of us videoconferencing has become a normal part of the workday as…
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Taking the Guesswork Out of Grades: Canvas Features for Grade Transparency
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In this article, we’ll be covering some ways you can incorporate grade transparency in your course, as well as the features built into Canvas that will allow you to do so. In each section we will highlight how these features are beneficial to both you and your students.
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What’s in a Name? Tips for Learning & Using Students’ Names in Class
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As we head back into the classroom, many of you may be thinking of the regular challenge of learning and correctly pronouncing students’ names. There’s no easy solution, but evidence suggests it yields positive outcomes in the learning space. CATL has a new blog entry for you filled with specific strategies for working on names…